Strilko, Peter

MacLachlan continued to investigate the invention, and Dr. Charles Yembrick and Dr. Peter Strilko, who had joined our group recently, were assigned to optimize MacLachlan s system. They did a superb job and before long we had developed coatings, which functioned reliably. Of course, it was fortunate that we had access to leucodyes that were not oxidized by phenanthrenequinone, and that the spectra of the various components had minimum overlap in the critical spectral regions required for color formation and photodeactivation. 

Most of the transferees were not happy. Many had been trained as organic chemists and were suddenly shifted to totally different tasks. Peter Strilko became involved in the marketing of Riston Photoresists. Howard Gerlach wound up working in the medical products field. Dr. Wiliam Hardam, retained his supervisory position, and some years later was briefly involved in a Dylux program. 

Additionally, of course, the research group that initiated this work under the leadership of George Coraor, namely, Lawrence Cescon, Robert Cohen, Catharine Looney, Alexander Maclachlan, Peter Strilko, Charles Yembrick, and later Ed Abramson, John Caspar, John Neumer and Garrett Forsythe contributed significantly. The contributions to the development of markets by John DeCampi, Philip Botsolas, Lawrence Friar and William Wartell were outstanding. 

With Contributions from Bruce L Booth, David F. Eaton, Ihomas C. Felder, Bruce M. Monroe and Peter S. Strilko... 

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